Rathsillagh Upper

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathsillagh Upper, from 188 m² to 549,211 m² (54.92 ha, 135.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathsillagh Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Jul 2024Conditional

  for installation of a replacement Waste Water Treatment System and Percolation area to serve the existing building

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24248

• 26 Jul 2024N/a

  for installation of a replacement waste water treatment system and percolation area to serve the existing building

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24244

• 27 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the following 1.Retention for existing entrance and roadway. 2. Retention for stables building. 3. Retention for outdoor plant, laundry/utility building . 4. Retention for office building. 5. Retention for as constructed dwelling. 6. Permission for extension to the existing dwelling. 7. Permission for domestic garage. 8. Permission for yoga & gym building. 9. Permission to upgrade existing effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA guidelines and associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23440

• 20 Apr 2023N/a

  1. Retention for existing entrance and roadway, 2. Retention for stables building, 3. Retention for outdoor plant, laundry/utility building, 4. Retention for office building, 5. Retention for as constructed dwelling, 6. Permission for extension to the existing dwelling, . 7. Permission for domestic garage, 8. Permission for yoga & gym building, 9. Permission to upgrade existing effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA guidelines and associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23409

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathsillagh Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-015 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  An undated map of Rathsillagh (NLI Ms. 21.F. 35 (066)) includes the word 'castle' at the location of the present Rathsillagh House. A large two storied outbuilding (L 30m; Wth 15m) with substantial stone walls (av. T 1.5m), now used as a barn, may incorporate the remains of the castle (pers. comm. S. Hickey). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 7 October 2013

• KD031-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the top of a long gentle E-facing pasture slope. A raised circular area (diam. 40m; H 1m) is defined by a low overgrown scarp SSE-W-NE and by a later field bank - possibly incorporating an earlier enclosing bank - NE-E-SSE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 October 2013

• KD032-017001 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the top of a long moderately steep E-facing pasture slope. Visible on 1971 aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 25, BGN 19) as the cropmarks of two parallel fosses enclosing a large oval enclosure (est max diam. c. 80m NW-SE), with the cropmarks of two other parallel fosses to the E, possibly forming part of an associated field system (KD032-017002-). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2013

• KD032-017002 Field system
  Description

  Near the top of a long moderately steep E-facing pasture slope. Immediately E of a possible enclosure (KD032-017001-) Visible on 1971 aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 25, BGN 19) as the cropmarks of two parallel fosses, possibly forming part of an associated field system. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2013

• KD032-066 Moated site
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a square area (est. L c. 30m NE-SW; est. Wth. c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a back-filled fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathsillagh Upper.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Rathsillagh Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathsillagh Upper.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Rathsillagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Rathsillagh Upper · Ráth Saileach Uachtarach

Area

1,382,706 m² (138.27 ha, 341.67 acres)

Civil parish

Fontstown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Fontstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 144 households in the Fontstown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagussaun, Elone, Fontstown Upper, Kilrush, Oldgrange, Rathsillagh Lower

Placenames

Rathsillagh Upper on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.